Writing; an interesting form...
Last night, serendipitously, I stumbled over a writing-form that I thought you might find interesting, and decided to borrow it. It was in the 2001 Annual Music Issue of the Oxford American, on pp. 50-51, written by Ron Carlson, and titled "The Twenty-Seventh Rain." The form is a set of 27 different rains that are meaningful to Ron Carlson; here are three samples to show you how it goes:
"5. THE SIDEWAYS RAIN against the beach house, ripping in waves against the shutters now and again in thrilling curtains. ..."
"17. THE RAIN OUTSIDE YOUR BEDROOM WINDOW. It is a rain that allows my tribute, my apology: I stand in the rain years ago, and I see you move the curtains."
"21. THE HITCHHIKING RAIN, almost cold, a rain we had to ignore as we faced Route 8. ..."
I really, really like this form, and I'd like to see some sets of rains that are meaningful to you -- maybe sets of ten or a dozen.
Note: "The Twenty-Seventh Rain" was with a story about Ann Peebles' music, including the hit song "I Can't Stand the Rain" that she wrote with her husband and a friend; the 27th of Carlson's rains is headed "THE RAIN WE CANNOT STAND."
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"5. THE SIDEWAYS RAIN against the beach house, ripping in waves against the shutters now and again in thrilling curtains. ..."
"17. THE RAIN OUTSIDE YOUR BEDROOM WINDOW. It is a rain that allows my tribute, my apology: I stand in the rain years ago, and I see you move the curtains."
"21. THE HITCHHIKING RAIN, almost cold, a rain we had to ignore as we faced Route 8. ..."
I really, really like this form, and I'd like to see some sets of rains that are meaningful to you -- maybe sets of ten or a dozen.
Note: "The Twenty-Seventh Rain" was with a story about Ann Peebles' music, including the hit song "I Can't Stand the Rain" that she wrote with her husband and a friend; the 27th of Carlson's rains is headed "THE RAIN WE CANNOT STAND."
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Nonfiction online: "How Verbal Self-Defense Works" at http://people.howstuffworks.com/vsd.htm ; "Why Are Old Women Older Than Old Men And How Can We Fix That?" at http://www.seniorwomen.com/articles/articlesElginOld.html ; Religious Language Newsletter archive at http://www.forlovingkindness.org ; Fiction online: "We Have Always Spoken Panglish" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Story-Panglish.html ; "What The EPA Don't Know Won't Hurt Them" at http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/epa.htm ; "Weather Bulletin" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Weather.html ; "A Quorum Of Grandmothers" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/QuorumOfGrandmothers.html ; The Communipaths at http://www.jackiepowers.com/SuzetteHadenElgin/TheCommunipaths.html . More stuff at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/SiteMap.html ; LiveJournal blog index at http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=ozarque ; Art Gallery at
http://www.bysuzettehadenelgin.com .